@Edent This is a good post, and my first thought was to agree with you: it’d be great to have my own owned identity and to have full control over how much information it shares about me on a site by site basis. My second was how such a unique, lifelong online identity would be different from Government mandated ID IRL, and how many people might be hurt if it became a requirement of web use. Sometimes its an advantage to have an ephemeral identity online.